The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-13
ANENT DIVISION.

Last week We undertook to expose
the fallacy of the assumption that the
people Of Dakota have a right in de-
manding division and admis.
sion, to dictate the terms
thereof 80 far as they relate to
the boundaries of the proposed states
aud proved what ought to be consider
ed al incontestable proposition, and
which % years ago received its
ton by the arbitrament Of war, viz:
liz territory has no more right per &c
to demand and prescribe the terms Of
its admission into the union, than a
state has to separate and secede
t.lerefrom.
We now take up the reason urged
by divisionists that Dakota will be
benefited by an increased representa-
ton in Congress and ofcourse this ap-
plies only to the upper branch of it
Jour senators instead of two, and we
proceed to analyze their motives and
1t were we'll for the people of Dakota
to remember this, and when the time
comes next election, to stamp out with
their ballots that revolutionary spirit
which found expression in the pronu-
,ciamento Of the convention recently
assembled at Fargo, in reference to
the attitude Of South Dakota, in the
declaration Of her purpose "to resist to
The utmost any attempt at admission as one
,state-just as that other rebellion of
81 to "a was suppressed by the bullets
ofthe north.
y. That which obtrudes it's hideous
head more plainly and Extensively
than any other, is what must be ap-
parent to every one. viz: the fact that
10y the admission Of two states the Re-
publican party will gain a political
advantage. Dakota is hopelessly re-
publican. To bolster up its waning
power in the Senate they must have
1T least four senators from Dakota.
tits tersely and truthfully expressed
by Judge Mcconnell, thus, "Stripped
Of all local issues, division is a scheme
for party advantage"
An increased representation in con-
gress would be a good thing if it were
1os~~ be hoped tor that
the representatives would faith
fully represent northwestern interests,
but in the lightsof history, it would
be furnishing the enemies Of Dakota
q stick with which to cudgel it's brains,
and in view Of the antagonism exhib-
item by the eastern manufacturers cap
tailists and monopolists five years ago,
when it was sought to divide and ad-
init South Dakota, it is too much to be
expected that the real true, live in:
terests Of the people would be subsery-
ed OF promoted.
It is and should be our province in
determining what is good for Dakota to
consider existing facts, the lessons OF
the past and the possibilities OF the
future and it must be admitted that
there Is nothing encouraging Y the
prospect held out by divisionists in
the matter of our northwestern inter
ests to Justify the belief that any good
could come outofthis hypocritical dec.
laration Of the necessity for increased
congressional representation.
"a careful perusal Of the manifesto
offhe North Dakota divisionists shows,
that this pretence Of protecting the
interests ofthe northwest Is a sham and
4 oatch- word, for it is q notorious TACT
that 40 far as the states Of Minnesota,
Nebraska and Iowa are concerned
ii,ere is not one but whose senators
~. welded to the theory Of q high
protectiye tariff, VIGOROUSLY against
the. interests Of the great producing
ciasues sc the northWest--accordlng g
81. 81. Paul Pioneer Press decidedly
;n;mical thereto. 4 there any reason
y helisvs that Dskota With its tour